LoveMusik NPR Interview is Now Available Online

To listen to National Public Radio's featured segment on MTC's world premiere production of LoveMusik, a new Broadway musical, please visit this link.

For the piece, producer Jeff Lunden spoke to LoveMusik creators: book writer Alfred Uhry and director Harold Prince about the idea behind writing the show, their passion for the music of composer Kurt Weill, and Prince's friendship with Weill's wife Lotte Lenya who starred in his landmark production of Cabaret. In addition, Lunden sat down with Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris who plays Weill and two-time Tony Award winner Donna Murphy who plays Lenya.

LoveMusik has been honored with 12 Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding Musical and five Outer Critics Circle Nominations including Outstanding New Broadway Musical. Cerveris and Murphy have each been respectively nominated for Outstanding Actor and Actress by the Outer Critics Circle and the Drama Desk Awards and both have received Drama League citations for their work in LoveMusik.

LoveMusik began performances on April 12th and opens on May 3rd. Suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, LoveMusik features a book by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winner Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy, Parade). Musical staging is provided by Patricia Birch (A Little Night Music), and direction by 21-time Tony Award-winner Prince (The Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret, and Sweeney Todd).

"LoveMusik follows the lives of the unlikeliest of lovers  the brilliant, intellectual German composer Kurt Weill (Cerveris) and the woman who became his muse and star, Lotte Lenya (Murphy). LoveMusik is an epic romance, set in Berlin, Paris, Broadway and Hollywood, spanning 25 years in the lives of this complicated couple," state press notes.